The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04
One man was killed and several other per

One man was killed and several other per-
sons were injured.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest an unprece-
denied wind and snoW-storm prevailed
on the Goth ult Trains in Iowa, Illinois.
Michigan, Wisconsinfand Minnesota were
blockaded and many were abandoned
JOEL F. SHUMAKER, aged sixty years,
and Jacob B. Smith, aged fifty years, two
wealthy farmers living near Bucyrus, o.
were killed by the cars on the Goth ut
AT Lynchburg, Va, an incendiary fire
on the 9th ult, destroyed the Hill City
livery stable. Sixteen valuable horses ana
two mules were burned, ard two fremen
were badly injured.
On the morning of the Goth ult. a slight
shock of earthquake was felt at Charleston
and Summervilie, s. c.
A FIRE destroyed five business buildings
at Memphis, Mo-, a few days ago.
WILLIAM BECK, of Wayne County, Ind,
a blind veteran of the rebellion, has been
granted pension of S72 per month and
back pay. He would receive $40, 800 at the
first payment.
A PASSENGER train went through a bridge
a few days ago in the vicinity of Needles,
Cal, and four persons were killed and five
others were seriously injured.
THE United Labor party of Chicago has
nominated molder named Robert Nelson
for mayor.
In a lumber-shed at Hannibal, No., fire
on the 9th ult destroyed property valued
at 100000.
THE Texas Legislature has passed bill
to prohibit dealing in futures, under pen
atty of fine and imprisonment.
BURGLARS recently took from safe in a
store in Gainesville, Mo-, SIS, 900 belonging
to Ozark County.
THE safe of a bank at La Grange, Mo-,
was blown open by burglars on the 2Sth
and robbed of $4,000 in bonds and notes.
THE Governor Of West Virginia on the
18th ult appointed d. B. Lucas (Dem.)
United States Senator.
THE lumber firm of Beede & Bray at
Minneapolis, Mimi, failed on the 18th ult.
for S150000.
DISAPPOINTMENT in love prompted Annie
M. Barker, daughter of leading physi-
clan of Jeffersonville, Ind, to take a fatal
dose of rat poison on the 2Sth ult.
THE Prohibitionists of Chicago have
ance agent, for mayor.
A CHINOOK, or warm wind, prevailed in
Montana on the 2Sth ult The temperature
rapidly disappearing, and cattlemen felt
greatly relieved.
GEORGE MONTGOMERY shot and killed his
cousin, Iona Kitson, on the 2Sth, at Sparta,
KY, because she refused to marry him
THE general passenger agents OF West
ern railway lines announced on the 2Sth
ult. that the new Interstate Commerce
law forbids the issuing of passes to the fol-
lowing: Theatrical companies and their adj
vance agents, baseball players, bicvclsts,
students, laborers, lumbermen, Indians
wards of the Nation), United States off
GERS and soldiers or their families inmates
of soldiers homes, city police, members of
the press (as courtesies), hotel employees,
freight shippers, charity cases, temperance
workers, etc.
On the 2Sth the passenger rate from Des
Moines, Ia, to Chicago was cut to five dol
lars.
A FIRE on the 2Sth ult. destroyed the
house of Edward Burton (colored), near
Mariana, Ark, and his three boys per-
ished in the flames. /
OHIo's Oldest continuous resident, George
M. Crooks, died in Muskingum County on
the 28th ult. at the age of ninety-three
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